An analysis of underground forums

Authors:
Marti Motoyama;Damon McCoy;Kirill Levchenko;Stefan Savage;Geoffrey M. Voelker
Affiliations:
UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Underground forums, where participants exchange information on abusive tactics and engage in the sale of illegal goods and services, are a form of online social network (OSN). However, unlike traditional OSNs such as Facebook, in underground forums the pattern of communications does not simply encode pre-existing social relationships, but instead captures the dynamic trust relationships forged between mutually distrustful parties. In this paper, we empirically characterize six different underground forums --- BlackHatWorld, Carders, HackSector, HackE1ite, Freehack, and L33tCrew --- examining the properties of the social networks formed within, the content of the goods and services being exchanged, and lastly, how individuals gain and lose trust in this setting.